[Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:01:16 -0400] Stuart Ballard:
>Unfortunately I don't *have* a proposal that I consider "good" (see my
>other replies in this thread for lamentations on this issue and why a
>good solution is so hard to produce).
Introduce a new property:
Name: dynamic
Value: none | all | [not]? [<dpc-name>]+
Initial: all
Applies to: all elements
Inherited: no
Media: interactive media
none: No dynamic pseudo-classes are to be recognized.
all: All applicable dynamic pseudo-classes are
to be recognized.
[not] [<dpc-name>]+: A list of one or more dynamic pseudo-classes to
be recognized or (if "not" is used) to be
excluded from recognition.
which makes it possible to disable dynamic pseudo-classes for an element;
then the problem can be solved by including this rule:
a[name] {dynamic: not hover}
in the user agent default style sheet for HTML and XHTML.
(I believe most current browsers behave as if they had the rules:
* {dynamic: none}
a[href] {dynamic: all}
in their user agent default style sheets, but --- of course --- don't
recognize the "dynamic" property in user and author style sheets.)
An author would then have to add an additional rule, like this:
a[name] {dynamic: hover}
to make this:
a[name]:hover {...}
work in new, conforming browsers; but since:
1. current authors don't expect a[name]:hover to work;
2. "name" is already deprecated in XHTML 1.0, so authors should be
following the practice Tantek Celik suggested in message
<B965C001.125A5%tantek@cs.stanford.edu>:
|| So, really what you _should_ do is stop using named anchors,
|| and use the "id" attribute instead directly on the target
|| element (i.e. don't use an unnecessary <a> element at all
|| for the destination of a hyperlink), which is much better
|| structurally than those empty named anchors that litter the web.
when writing documents using newer standards (as CSS3 will be);
this doesn't seem to me like it would be much of a problem. Page authors
*should* expect to have to allow for user agent default style sheets when
writing CSS --- particularly complex or unusual CSS.
--
Randall Joseph Fellmy aka Randy@Coises.com